Coat.



F. M. PRESTWICH.

COAT.

APPLICAT |0N FILED MAY 12, 19M.

Patented July 24, 1917.

aw-M FRANK IVI. PRESTWIOH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 191W.

Application filed May 12, 1917. Serial No. 168,075.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK M. PRESTWIOH, a subject of the King of England, and resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coats, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to overcoats, and is herein described as applied to double breasted coats, such as military overcoats often are. Such overcoats are often extremely stiff, so that they have to be out with extremely loose lower foreparts to permit of comfortable walking. Such loose foreparts, however, allow wind to circulate freely around the legs, thus offsetting much of the advantage of the thick cloth used. My invention enables the foreparts of such coats to be buttoned around the legs of the wearer thus forming pantaloons. Although the possibility of such buttoning involves the slitting of the forepart at the line of the crotch, yet I am enabled to make such slitting immaterial by providing means whereby the slit may be closed.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a view of a man wearing my coat buttoned walking.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the back and one side of the coat ripped apart.

Fig. 3 is a section through the slit.

Fig. 4 is a front view of a man with the coat buttoned into pantaloons around his legs.

Fig. 5 is a side view of the man seen in Fig. 4.

The overcoat comprises the usual back piece 1, and forepart 2 which are stitched together on the shoulder seam 3 and down the side by the seam 4:. The coat also includes the usual arms 5. On the right forepart 2 is a row of buttons, 6, and along the edge a row of button holes, 7, the latter adapted to button on to a row of buttons 8 on the left piece 9. The rows of buttons 8 and 6 are symmetrically disposed on the coat on opposite sides of the center line A-A of the body, thus the buttons 6 substantially indicate the extreme edge of the left forepart, 9, the coat being a double breasted one. The belt 10 and pockets 11 may occupy the usual positions, and the deep olla 2 my b turned up and toned in place by a flap, 13, joining the two ends of the collar.

To permit the foreparts to be buttoned into pantaloon form, the back is slit at 14 to a point well up toward the crotch. Each forepart is provided at its extreme front lower corner with a button hole 15, which is adapted to button on to a side button, 16, almost beneath the pocket, and well above the bottom of the coat, being thus positioned because the coat is wound semi-diagonally around the leg, as seen in Fig. 5. The thick cloth usually used in such coats prevents the coat from fitting snugly and easily around the legs unless special provision is made to permit the easy bending of the cloth. To accomplish this I cut a slot, 17, in each front 2. Each slot is closed by a strip 18 which is stitched to the coat along the upper margin of its slot 17 and also at the inner end thereof, and overlaps the button hole, 19, just below it, being provided with a button, 20, to button into said button hole, 19, thus effectually closing the slit and holding the edge in place.

Before beginning to wrap the skirts of the coat around his legs, the wearer unbuttons both the buttons 20 and then to close the coat as seen in Figs. 1 and 5 may fold each of the flaps 21 loosened thereby up under its own forepart 2, then gathers the back piece by the edge of the slot, 14, wraps it around his leg so that the edge 22 which forms said slot winds spirally around his leg toward and around the front. When this back piece is thus laid smooth he takes the other corner, at the button hole, 15, and wraps it around backwardly inside his leg and buttons it on to the button, 16, at the outside of his leg not far from the knee. This makes the lower edge, 23, of the slot, 18, run nearly horizontal, backward between the legs, so that the button hole, 19, will button on to the nearest button, 24, at the rear of the coat, thus keeping the crotch closed and smooth. lVhen thus buttoned the coat makes what may be regarded as a long legged and long sleeved one piece union suit, rather stiff to walk in but extremely warm and admirably adapted for very cold or windy weather, for such purposes as sentry duty, patrol duty and riding on transport wagons, or sleeping and any other occasion where more warmth is required.

While I have described certain features of my inventi in g eat detail, I ha data so only to enable those, skilled in the art to edges extending inwardly from such edges adjacent the crotch, to permit the bottom to be separately wrapped around each leg.

2. A double breasted coat comprising body and bottom or skirt portions having vertical edges adapted to overlap in front, said front overlapping body and bottom portions being partially separated by a slot on each of the vertical edges extending inwardly from such edges adjacent the crotch, to permit the lapping lower corner of the body to be folded in and the bottom to be separately Wrapped rearwardly around each leg.

3. In a coat, the combination with foreparts above the crotch line overlapping at the front and adapted to be buttoned down one on the other, of a back part separated in the center below the crotch line, forepart sections below the crotch lineoverlapping each other, a flap above the crotch line adapted to be turned in, a front part of the forepart below the flap and separated therefrom by a slit, adapted to be folded around the leg, the remainder of said lower section of coat wrapped around the' same by the other Way and fastened thereto,-so that each leg is covered with a pantaloon leg integral with the body of the coat.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 11th day of May, A, D. 1917. y

FRANK M. PRESTVVICH. Witnesses:

7 JENNIE P. THonNn,

EDWARD THOMAS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing-the Commissioner 053 Patents, Washington; D. G. 

